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More salmon get truck rides due to drought

May 27, 2014   Pacific

Nearly 1 million juvenile Chinook salmon this week will get a truck ride from Red Bluff to San Pablo Bay as a detour around harmful Sacramento River conditions caused by drought. The fish are the last of 12 million fall-run Chinook salmon produced this year at Coleman National Hatchery near Red Bluff. Normally, all those fish are released into Battle Creek, a tributary of the Sacramento, to journey downstream to the Pacific Ocean on their own. Read more here  18:25

Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2014/05/27/6436268/more-salmon-get-truck-rides-due.html#storylink=cpy

 

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